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> However, if I want card X for Magic/Pokemon, I can look up the card online, find its value, and buy the card. Sure, I can buy booster packs, but they are not
by davemp 7y ago
> However, if I want card X for Magic/Pokemon, I can look up the card online, find its value, and buy the card. Sure, I can buy booster packs, but they are not the only way to get the card I want.
If anything, Magic teaches you that gambling is usually the worst way to get the card you want.
- bsder 7y agoAlthough ... I'm glad I'm not a gambling man... Back a while ago, I remembered my MtG friends complaining that they couldn't get some box (Modern Masters?) because they ran out immediately. I was at my hometown and ran into a dedicated gaming store owner who vastly overestimated the wealth of his rural clients in buying higher end MtG stuff (or maybe he didn't--I did spend a lot of money after all). So, I bought all his stock--something like 10 boxes at almost $3000, IIRC, (there is more than one reason they call it cardboard crack) and brought them back. I kept a couple boxes for gifts and sold the rest to very happy MtG players. Every single box had a card at the time valued at more than the price of the whole box--plus a smattering of other fairly valuable cards. Since then, my MtG friends make me pick out any "lottery" things they buy. My luck is decent, but it has never been that good again.